Please, if that works, I want to see it !!! If you make it oversized be sure to keep the pattern very small. Don't make the skirt too short....we don't want to get the girl in trouble with the nuns.....I speak from experience mg:
Did they typically use a black-and-white plaid or more of a Scottish plaid? I'm a Scot by parentage, so we're Protestants, and we all wear true highland plaids. My familiarity with all things Nunnish is pretty limited.
Here are some of the most common plaid used in Catholic school skirts....mine was just a plain pleated gray skirt
I've mixed the Preiser and lifelike in scenes and they just don't look right together. I swear some of those life like figures are 8 ft tall.
Someone told me that they thought the Lifelike figures were made for OO scale. The Brits use that scale. 4mm I was told. That would make some figures like 8 feet tall as you said. clevermod...I assumed you were talking about HO scale figures . If you were taking about N then BoxcabE50 is probably right
Yes, we do! For some reason, HO (3.5mm to the foot or 1/87) never caught on in the UK. I seem to remember reading somewhere that it was to do with the size of the mechanism inside a smaller body - British prototypes being a lot smaller than those in Europe or elsewhere. Even the EMD locos in fairly common use over here now, and known as the class 66, have the mechanism shoe-horned into the body to fit our loading gauge. Equally, when most other people went to 1/160 for N, we went to 148. Your 8ft tall people are actually basketball players in ordinary clothing, not their sports kit . . . Regards, Pete Davies
This is hardly a quick reply. I see the last post was Nov.28 but I have been so busy with schoolwork. The last couple days, I have done the first TINY modeling project in 5 months, and it was inspired by this thread. I bought a set of 100 "bathing suit" figures a year and a half ago from China. I thought they were "good enough" for a mass beach crowd scene-- except for some cultural peculiarisms. 95 of the figures had jet black hair, the other 5 red-orange hair. That might be typical of a Chinese or Japanese beach-- and maybe Asians might see Europeans as red-headed. But didn't work for my 1950s Texas coast beach scene. Also all the female figures were in 2 piece suits.... not typical of 1950s. My partial solution was to change hair color of about 60 to 70 percent of the bathers, put most of the women in 1 piece suits and another item typical of the 1950s-- I added bathing caps for quite a few of the women. BUT there were about 15 female figures (from the same mold) only 80% the height of the other figures. Looked like multiples of the same underfed 11 year old girl. Just too many of the same pose and unusual size figure for a typical beach scene. I thought I might make a cluster of junior high girls hanging out together but still, just too many. I had an idea some months later what to do with them. I had an unusual prototype I wanted to model... It is now a day school ie a school for pre-school child care. But it used to be a Conservatory of Music. If I made that same building a DANCE school, it would be appropriate to have a gaggle of 5th grade girls in leotards waiting in the front parking lot to be picked up by ballet-mothers. All the girls are thin and lithe, and the fact that they are all waiting and have same --what would you say- experience, mindset, Weltanschaung- might cause they all to be in similar posture, hands folded in front of themselves. Candy Streeter's original post made me want me to post that, but I didn't get to it until now. I tried to paint my young ladies. I didn't have good black acrylic paint, had to use some old craft paint- in a hurry- disappointed with the results. I still think its a good idea. I may strip the paint and try again another time....
Variety is what makes figures less cheesy. I agree with the other posts that Prieser and Woodland Scenic make great figures, because of the level of detail and quality but also because of the vast variety. I love having the chance to use each. Like Kenneth said, sometimes you just need a crowd. I think a little repainting can make those cheap 100 folk herd look better to add variety, but also sprinkling in some variety into the hundred to help keep it look varied. My advice to Kenneth's dance huddle, is another try on the paint and adding in a couple of girls not in that pose. I like the idea of having a huddled mass of teenagers but like teen movies show us all herds need a queen bee and a rebel. Variety is the spice of life. That being said, I love visiting layouts and finding those standard people that seem to be on every layout. I love finding right arm up painter (in white overalls and a red shirt) that every layout.
